Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga, Impulse ! Records, 1967
I first became an instant fan of Gabor's when I first heard "High Contrast" and started picking up his albums with "Jazz Raga" having not ben too far away from my CD player since. This album is a wild mix of Indo-fusion with Jazz, pop and psychedelic imaging. Of course Szabo delivers his classic and distinctive six-string styling but this time melds this with the some pretty trippy and 60's infused hypnotic sitar.
I think at times this albums sounds like Gabor is just twiddling with thte sitar but this really works for me. ....even if the sitar is off key a few times and sounds like my son Liam is on the room plucking my sitar strings ! Oh yeah he plays a pretty psychy version of the Stones classic "Paint It Black" as well as a Duke Ellington and a George Gershwin tune. This album is a great listen and an album i have really enjoyed.
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